Un buscavidas se compincha con una pitonisa para engañar a la gente y conseguir dinero... Remake del film "El callejón de las almas perdidas" (Nightmare Alley) de 1947.
Un ambicioso aspirante a artista de circo (Tyrone Power) está dispuesto a todo con tal de alcanzar la cima del éxito. Cuando encuentra el secreto de un truco de feria, decide montar un próspero negocio con unas ayudantes...
Corre el verano de 1987 y aunque James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), un joven recién graduado en el instituto, sueña con hacer un viaje por Europa, la falta de recursos le obliga a aceptar un empleo precario en un parque de atracciones local. Así, James consigue el peor trabajo que nunca imaginó... pero puede que también pase la mejor época de su vida.
31 nos llevará hasta una feria de circo donde cinco trabajadores son secuestrados la noche antes de Halloween y son llevados a Murder World, un lugar donde tendrán 12 horas para sobrevivir a unos maniacos llamados The Heads en un juego llamado 31.
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional triangle.
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or sensational innovation could escape incorporation into the Prater. The diverse story-telling in Ulrike Ottinger’s film “Prater” transforms this place of sensations into a modern cinema of attractions. The Prater’s history from the beginning to the present is told by its protagonists and those who have documented it, including contemporary cinematic images of the Prater, interviews with carnies, commentary by Austrians and visitors from abroad, film quotes, and photographic and written documentary materials. The meaning of the Prater, its status as a place of technological innovation, and its role as a cultural medium are reflected in texts by Elfriede Jelinek, Josef von Sternberg, Erich Kästner and Elias Canetti, as well as in music devoted to this amusement venue throughout the course of its history.
But what is the Church of Satan? Who is Anton LaVey? Where is he from? Why does he do that? It does not take much to imagine the worst. Orgiastic ceremonies, where one revels in the blood of virgins, moonlight lamb sacrifices, noise concerts in the basement of a historical building… No, really nothing that amusing among the activities in the Church of Satan. Anton LaVey is nothing like a horned Charles Manson, and his path is all the more unexpected. Nick Bougas allows us to discover the artist, the musician, the philosopher, all through hallucinatory images retrieved from archives, making this rare documentary only two years before the author of the Satanic Bible disappeared.
A medicine show singer finds her love.